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Recurrent pulmonary embolism with non-mobile thrombus in a patient with leiomyosarcoma of the left renal vein.

Mansencal N, El Hajjam M, Vieillard-Baron A, Pelage JP, Lacombe P, Dubourg O

We describe the case of a man who suffered recurrent pulmonary embolisms despite well-conducted oral anticoagulant therapy. Echocardiography and helical computed tomography revealed a non-mobile right atrial mass related to a leiomyosarcoma of the left renal vein. The prognosis of such a disease is bad and the patient died at 1-year follow-up. Recurrent pulmonary embolism with well-conducted oral anticoagulant therapy requires further appropriate investigations, because of high suspicion of neoplastic process.

Published 18 September 2006 in Int J Cardiol, 112(2): 247-8.
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